Properties

SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit uses properties files to set default preferences for each process. Properties are name-value pairs that are translated into SAS global macro variables. These macro variables are available for the duration of a SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit process. Properties can be defined in any number of files. Both text file and SAS data set formats are supported. All SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit global macro variables are documented in Overview. These macro variables are derived from properties files provided by SAS.

The following table describes the contents of a sample properties file in <global standards library directory/standards/cst-framework/programs/initialize.properties. Each property (global macro variable) is described in Appendix 1.